The song 'Fortnight' by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word 'fortnight' shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
a strey: a stray dog
a stray thought
a scrap for the hunger machine
a sign says
"turn back don't trust them here"
a symbol of dishonest men
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
heart in your mother's mistakes
away
a way to forget them
and a fix to keep others at bay
spare change but keep all your sympathy
these days the kids all have plenty to spare
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
follow your father's footsteps
run
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
blood in your country's teeth
runaway
run
to light cigarettes in boxcars
and play "boat dreams..." on broken guitars
to walk all night with shoes full of blood
and fade in daytime
movie theaters
to read that "life was a vast glowing empy place"
and we were free
we were free
to wake up with a needle in your arm
and throw it all away
you threw it all away
to just become another dog off it's leash
just a fucking pity animal
sleeping in the streets
to just become another dirty word painted on a wall
just a pity fucking animal
sleeping in the streets
running in the gutters
your head is in your hands
but your face isn't on any milk cartons
run run run
don't call me from your nightmare
a stray thought
a scrap for the hunger machine
a sign says
"turn back don't trust them here"
a symbol of dishonest men
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
heart in your mother's mistakes
away
a way to forget them
and a fix to keep others at bay
spare change but keep all your sympathy
these days the kids all have plenty to spare
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
follow your father's footsteps
run
sleep in the streets
run in the gutters
head in your hands
blood in your country's teeth
runaway
run
to light cigarettes in boxcars
and play "boat dreams..." on broken guitars
to walk all night with shoes full of blood
and fade in daytime
movie theaters
to read that "life was a vast glowing empy place"
and we were free
we were free
to wake up with a needle in your arm
and throw it all away
you threw it all away
to just become another dog off it's leash
just a fucking pity animal
sleeping in the streets
to just become another dirty word painted on a wall
just a pity fucking animal
sleeping in the streets
running in the gutters
your head is in your hands
but your face isn't on any milk cartons
run run run
don't call me from your nightmare
Lyrics submitted by AceXVI
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